You’ll be joining one of our DevOps teams in our R&D department working on the Quantexa Cloud Platform and accompanying solutions. The platform is comprised of a landscape of lowmaintenance, on-demand, and highly secure environments. Our environments host our software for our customers and partners to use, they also service a variety of internal use cases including underpinning the work of our R&D teams to develop Quantexa Platform software.
You’ll be heavily involved with our cloud-based technical infrastructure, with responsibilities surrounding improving the availability and resilience of our platform, improving its usability and security, ensuring we stay at the forefront of technical innovation, and reducing toil across our estate.
You will also work alongside our software engineering teams to leverage DevOps techniques to support our software release activities and work on unique cloud-based product offerings for our customers to use in their own DevOps processes on their own Cloud estate.
Our tech stack
A strong focus on Docker/Kubernetes/Istio
DevOps tooling/automation written with Bash/Python/Groovy/Jenkins/Golang
Provisioning software/frameworks (Elasticsearch/Spark/Hadoop/PostgreSQL)
Infrastructure Management - CasC, IasC (Ansible, Terraform, Packer)
Log and metric aggregation with Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager
Public Cloud, primarily GCP, but also AWS and Azure
Requirements
What do I need to have?
Take pride in designing, building and delivering high quality well engineered solutions to complex problems
Take a big picture approach to solving problems, taking care to ensure that the solution works well within the wider system
In-depth exposure to a handful of the key parts of our tech stack listed above
Experience with programming/scripting/automation
Good appreciation for information security principals
Experience with infrastructure management and general Linux administration
Experience in the following would be beneficial:
Experience managing microservice based architectures (scaling, upgrading, traffic management, deployment strategies)
Experience mentoring junior engineers
Experience with software build and release engineering